Upcoming S.T.A.L.K.E.R Updates & Idea's

[Silver Knight]

Im not always open with whats going on behind the scenes, i usually just get on and do with what we have to do, but i figure, after a few people going abit nutsy, id do this... and Well, i said i wouldn't work on my birthday, but screw it, heres a list of idea's which are being made by our dev team, and some idea's, which are still in the works, and need YOUR feedback !

Now In The Script

Fixed OOC bug, and Fixed Delay
New Working Ban System which stops those who want to ruin your roleplay !

Currently In Development:

Stats System

The stats system will be much like TnB's and the Orginal Stalkers, but it will effect most aspects of the game and your roleplay, depending oh what you choose will reflect on what your character is good at, for example, if you choose to spend points in Stamina, you can carry my in your inventory, you hold your sniper rifle firmer, so it won't sway as much when aiming and  you can run alot more without running out of breath too soon.

Artifacts will have a direct inpact on this, some artifacts might add on several points tempoarly, and some might take away points, suits will also have a impact, the lighter your suit, the less impact on agility it will have.

Skills

This is something still in the idea catagory, but is very much planned. We plan to have skills such as: Hacking (For example, bypassing a security door lock, at the new military base or accessing some electric powered stashes) Weapon Proficencys, so you can use certain weapons better than others, alot of people in real life, and the zone arn't good at every weapon, some are better at different kinds of weapons, so this we felt, was a much needed feature. and others, please feel free to discuss others !

New Inventory System

The new inventory system will be seperated from the PDA, there will be 3 slots, like stalker, one for primary, one for secondary, and one for equiptment. A new suit system, consisting of the suit in four parts, Head, Body, Feet and Hands, each suit is unique, and can be equipted, depending on what your wearing, it can effect your stats, such as wearing a exo, will give you alot of Stamina, but will decrease your agility, as you cannot move as you would with a normal leather jacket.

When you leave both your Guns and suit will save, no more will you have to put them in your inventory when you leave, your suit will be with you forever, until you drop it or sell it, there may be a 1/100 % chance of losing it on death, thats something we are still considering. Once this system is on the server, it will be in common hud, and depending on our feedback changes will be applied, if people like it, then we will keep it and add a stalker like hud.
A simple plan to indicate how it will look

PDA Profiles

Players will be getting their own profiles on their PDA's you can edit your profile, and others can view yours and theirs through their PDA. This will include your backstory, general description and other things you would like to describe about, this will be optional to all players, and it will help enhance roleplay, we will have a system to disable profiles which are abused.

2nd Title

We are going to be placing a 2nd title, just so you can display more information about yourself, your Age, how tall you are etc, after all the first title is just a description.

Stashes

Well, it was fairly obvious that this was going to come up, as it's pretty dam important, this will be script based, and set in certain area's as a preset thing. The Stashes will already be on the map, and will be restocked overtime to have random items inside them from a preset list, that way, you can find something new every time, these will be well hidden places and may not always be easy to access !

Character Deletion

Most of you have thought this was a easy task, but it's really not, it involves Glon, the rather evil saving system, it's easy to enter text in, but for most average developers, it's a nightmare to use, but this is a needed feature and will happen, even if our brains explode from logical thinking, It will most likely be a little X against your character which you press, and then a "Yes, No" menu appears asking to confirm the deletion.

New Weapon System

Everyone can pretty much agree, the current weapon is flawed, through we are used to it, it's time for a change, which will involve us adding a better more improved anti run and gun script, better recoil for the weapons and it will be tied in with out new systems, (Inventory, stats etc) to have a direct impact on both your passive and hands on Roleplay.

Cinematic View

This appears when you join stalker and will move across the world showing you various scenes, it will show you brief information about the game, and play the STALKER menu sound.

Idea's In The Works:

The Achievement and Stats System

This is mostly a idea, but in your profile, it will record just little details as you play, such as how much you have ran, how many times you have said STALKER, or used a artifact, a kind of personal achievement placement if you will.

Barkeep System

We are considering a new system for barkeeps, to make it somewhat, more enjoyable, this again, is just a idea. What will happen, is every barkeep, through a app, starts off at one start and has to earn his own money by buying products, Each star will unlock new items and weapons for them to sell and purchase, giving barkeeps a point to exist in their own catagory of gaming.

Quest System

This is also something we would like feedback on, as it may be a important aspect of the script in the future. The way we currently see it, is pretty much how it is in STALKER, trusted players can be given a special flag which enables them to give out quests to players, these quests can be anything from:

"Duty Here, Squad 6, Return To Base Immediatly" To
"Stalker, how are you getting on with your job, it's been a hour, if you don't hurry up, im going to hand it to someone else ! "

It can be used not only to provide quests, but a direct ICly contact feature, other than using the faction radio's, it will appear just like in Stalker, the top head part of the model, the title and part of the message, the rest can be read inside your PDA.

[Bl★ck Star]

cool !

[ThY]

Epic, awesome. Amazing :)

Not sure on the barkeep's though, i mean. If one trader is online. (or the max 3) And they dont have what people want. Well..
What then?

[deluxulous]

awesome sauce

[Nvgg3t]

I'll be posting a couple seperate threads as these come closer :D

[~Ness~]

Can't wait.

[Moordact]

very nice ,  i will be on the server regulary in the future.

[Dark Angel]

Maybe handswep , Tranq , sleep and passout ? + Door BReach?

Passout and Tranq will make you ragdoll but you will be able to look around still while other player can RPly carry you without the rest thinking WTF? Why are the following each other like "Whatever you want to be here"

[Paintcheck]

Skills and stats system = FAIL. Coding should not take the place of RP and I don't want to have to deal with stats and skills that do nothing except make it harder to RP certain things.

Everything else looks quite win.

[Nvgg3t]

It won't limit you, but instead make you better in certain areas and just normal in others :D

[Silver Knight]

It won't limit you, but instead make you better in certain areas and just normal in others :D

Which helps you create a unique roleplay character and finally gives you the true STALKER experience without effecting roleplay.

[Dark Angel]

It won't limit you, but instead make you better in certain areas and just normal in others :D

Which helps you create a unique roleplay character and finally gives you the true STALKER experience without effecting roleplay.

This guy is right.

But still well i guess STATS will cause alot of trouble. But i'm not against them.

[KingArthur]

Pretty sweet. Speechless if it works out  :-X

[Wellington]

Ideas sound good.

[Nines]

This is perfect, now people can hand tailor their characters as they please.

[Radek]

About the skills.. if you Get one.. PLease do a Chopper Skill So not everyone can Fly the damn thing. I mean that's a really reare skill Only trained pilots should be able to fly it.

[Moordact]

very nice ideas , although i should point you guy's to the fact the inventory glitch is the biggest problem i can think of at the moment.


everytime i join/other people join we keep losing items from our inentory..

so please let that be the first thing that's getting fixed

[Locke]

Exciting!

[Cobra]

I have to concur with locke this will be very awesome.

[Zero]

If stats system is used make it so we can increase or decrease it over time, say for instance, improving in the way you do things like if you lockpick so many times, it comes to be a way of life and you understand how to do something like that more often and more successful, in turn sometimes these things improve other skills but decrease other skills as in terms "Forgeting" things you knew to make room for the new skills, this would prevent someone from becoming too powerful, but then again I like to max all my skills :D

[Bagelz]

If the stat system succeeds, as well as the skill system...Then...I dunno what to say. No server will ever be able to top it if you guys manage to pull it off.

[Rook]

This all seems so flawless, i cant wait for the new inventory and stats to be added, its going to be awsome.

[Radek]

I Will be sweet.. I hope it dosent take to long, but i know you guys can fix it :P

[klp4]

I really like the idea of everyone getting their own PDA. Would be really good for different kinds of roleplay, all from military checkpoints to bounty hunting or slavery.

[Radek]

Yea then you could actually post lasting bountys.. Bounty hunters could make alot of money..